Mexico City

Thought to be on the exact spot where the Aztecs saw their symbolic eagle, perching on a cactus with a snake in its beak. — Lonely Planet

Opera, dance and theatre are among the performances one can enjoy at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. — Michelin Guide

Houses eye-poppingly beautiful handicrafts from across Mexico, while simultaneously covering the country’s history. — Frommer's

Almost every visitor to Mexico City makes a pilgrimage here to gain a deeper understanding of the painter (and maybe to pick up a Frida handbag). — Lonely Planet

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.  — Atlas Obscura

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.  — Atlas Obscura

This grandiose museum, which belongs to Mexican magnate Carlos Slim is housed in a bold architectural complex, named after his deceased wife. — Michelin Guide

Built entirely out of volcanic rock, its windows are covered in alabaster and it has more nooks and stairs inside than any temple of a diabolic Mesoamerican deity that you’d see in an El Santo film. — Time Out

This museum bears the name of Franz Mayer, a rich collector born in Germany who acquired top-quality works of Mexican decorative art including textiles, silver, furniture and ceramics. — Michelin Guide

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.  — Atlas Obscura

The MUAC building, by Teodoro González de León, one of Mexico’s most renowned architects, is itself a work of art, with a futuristic design and floor-to-ceiling glass walls. — Frommer's

The collections of the National Art Museum, which include more than 800 pieces filling a neoclassical building... span nearly every school of Mexican art. — Fodor's

Memorabilia and biographical notes are displayed in buildings off the patio, where a tomb engraved with a hammer and sickle contains Trotsky's ashes. — Lonely Planet

The nine murals covering the north and east walls of the first level above the patio chronicle indigenous life before the Spanish conquest. — Lonely Planet

The recently renovated museum has a notable design shop. — Travel + Leisure

Mexico City's shrine to the country's most noteworthy twentieth-century artists. — Frommer's

Its most enigmatic sculpture is a giantess with a ghostly face on her knee.   — Atlas Obscura

European paintings have pride of place at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, housed in a Neoclassical building built between 1798 and 1805 by Manuel Tolsá. — Michelin Guide

If you get a chance for a firsthand experience of this slice of Mexican tradition, go for it and don't be shy! — Michelin Guide

This "House of Tiles" is one of Mexico City's most precious colonial gems and popular meeting places. — Frommer's